RIPON, Wis. – S.L. Wisenberg, an award-winning author, distinguished writing professor, and cancer survivor will read selections from her works of fiction at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6 in the Caestecker Gallery of Ripon College’s Rodman Center for the Arts.

S.L. Wisenberg’s short story collection, “The Sweetheart Is In,” was a Chicago Tribune notable book of the year. She’s also the author of an essay collection, “Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions.” Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in the New Yorker, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, River Teeth, TriQuarterly, New England Review and many anthologies. She reads excerpts from her blog about breast cancer (cancerbitch.blogspot.com) on Chicago Public Radio. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In addition to her writing career, Wisenberg is co-director of the M.A. in Creative Writing program at Northwestern University and teaches at the University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies. A former reporter for the Miami Herald, she has a bachelor’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. A native Texan, she now resides in Chicago.

Wisenberg’s visit is being sponsored by the Ripon College Visiting Writers Series with assistance from the Schang Family Visiting Writer’s Fund. The series has been bringing top literary talent to campus for 20 years.  For more information, contact Kate Sontag, Department of English, at 748-8723.

About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 361 College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s, and among the 160 best schools in the nation by Colleges of Distinction. For more information about Ripon College, visit www.ripon.edu.

 
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